For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

NASA eyes a return to Saturn with a new probe, aiming to uncover gas giant mysteries. Missions to Enceladus, Io, and the Moon ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

But it hasn't always been this way. Jupiter's four largest moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more ...

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